After a four-day practice session in Antigua, Bella Mente Racing gets underway in the highly anticipated RORC Caribbean 600 tomorrow (Monday, February 22) at 11:20 a.m. The team is the defending champion in the 600-mile race, which starts off Fort Charlotte in Antigua and takes its fleet around 11 Caribbean islands.
The team preparing the boat prior to the race:
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- Navigator, Ian “Soapy” Moore
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- Tactician, Terry Hutchinson
“The boat is tuned, the crew is in awesome shape and the Bella Team is ready to give it their all in this iconic Caribbean race,” said Bella Mente Racing’s Owner/Driver Hap Fauth, adding that this year, the event is hosting a record number of entries, with 70 teams registered to be on the starting line tomorrow.
The team is looking at some tight competition in IRC and will need to get the better of three other equally matched Maxi 72s in order to hold onto their title as overall winner and retain the RORC Caribbean 600 Trophy.
Weather Condition Forecast:
Weather models are predicting 14 knots of wind from the south east at the start, freshening to 20 knots in the early hours of Tuesday morning with the wind in the east. By Wednesday morning the wind speed is due to increase and by Thursday weather models predict 25 knots of wind from the east. By the afternoon, the wind is forecast to move to the south east and decrease.
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